Outside the Beltway

What was that, a joke about shovel ready jobs not being so shovel ready. Yeah unemployment a topic ripe for great comedy.

Rick Perry makes a valid point about bringing the economy back to Biblical principles.

The US spends a lot on defense relative to, well, the rest of the world.

The main issue, above all else, is taxes.

As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

The “debt ceiling” is phony, contrived, and needs to be eliminated.

What are the options regarding the debt ceiling?

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.